Venice

A Venetian building façade emerges from water, rendered in du Toit’s characteristic interplay of light and shadow. The composition captures a weathered arched doorway and window set against walls of cream and ochre, their surfaces marked by time and moisture. Dark passages anchor the composition while pale highlights suggest the filtering of natural light across aged plaster. The intimate scale and restrained palette reflect the artist’s classical impressionistic approach, employing oil on board to render architectural form through the studied effects of luminosity.